Remembering Netscape and The Birth of the Web 280
bigdaddyhale writes "Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs. That was reality just a decade ago. The company that changed it--bringing us into the Internet age--was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape. For the tenth anniversary of its IPO, FORTUNE recruited dozens of players to tell the story of Netscape in their own words."
I did not know Netscape invented the internet.. (Score:1, Funny)
Quiet Article (Score:3, Funny)
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Re:I did not know Netscape invented the internet.. (Score:2, Funny)
Dear Slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
Good Ole Days (Score:5, Funny)
No or less newbs. Far less spam. Fewer viruses.
*sniff* The good ole days.
The company that changed it--bringing us into the Internet age--was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape
Bastards!
picture a world.... (Score:5, Funny)
and I remember a world where I had an email box that had NO spam in it, and a USENET with little to no spam... where porn was in alt.binaries.* and NOT in comp.*.... and posts were ON TOPIC.
OTOH - it was also a world without
I'd like to turn back time.
Re:DMZ (Score:3, Funny)
Gopher was my friend, email was useable, usenet was great and IRC was the new kid on the block.
gimmie!
Myopic vision (Score:5, Funny)
If nothing else, you think he would appreciate the ease of getting pr0n. Cobbling together alt.binary... threads was state-of-the-art back then.
It's not so hard to picture, really (Score:5, Funny)
Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband
Well, it'd make Jeff Bezos patent portfolio look a lot different. That's for sure.
dumb moves (Score:4, Funny)
Mosaic (Score:3, Funny)
Anybody who uses IE probably still has some of the original Mosic bugs in the code they use
Good ol' days... (Score:3, Funny)
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...
I love these good ol' days stories :)
Screw the web! (Score:3, Funny)
Topic Marathons (Score:2, Funny)
What about tomorrow?
They didn't even mention me! (Score:4, Funny)
I was working as a student support tech at the University of Illinois. My boss, who had been in Marc Andreesen's department, said he was having trouble with some Unix thing. Being the only approachable Unix type around, she asked me to help him. I called or emailed him, and agreed to come take a look at his workstation.
In my august wizardness I never found the building, so I never got to meet Marc or solve his problem.
I can't believe they didn't even mention my central role in Netscape's development.
So here's the question (Score:3, Funny)
IE lives on, while Netscape died in an "accident" but is survived by more-or-less bastard children of many names- mozilla/firefox, Opera, etc.
So now, 10 years later, do we know for sure: did IE murder Netscape, was it truly an accident of circumstance, or was it semi-suicide?
I'd genuinely like to know.
Re:Same tired knee-jerk comment... (Score:3, Funny)
Big Blue E (Score:3, Funny)
Most of the non-geeks around me think "the Internet" is a big blue E that sits on their desktop. If I say "browser" they think I'm talking about a customer that doesn't buy anything.
XMosaic in 2005! (Score:4, Funny)
It won't render slashdot, though
Now I'm off to build 2.6!
How old is the avg /.r, 12? (Score:4, Funny)